Numbering device for storm-sash or screens.



No. 784,840. PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905.

E. A. CROSBY. NUMBERING DEVICE FOR STORM SASH 0B. SURBENS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20. 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. CROSBY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

NUMBERING DEVICE FOR STOPM-SASH OR SCREENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,840, dated March14, 1905.

Application filed Julie 20,1904. Serial No. 213,268.

To rtZZ whom it Duty concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. CROSBY, of Minneapolis, in the county ofHennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Numbering Devices for Storm-Sash or Screens, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices fornumberingstorm-sash and screens, so as to be able to determine instantlythe window to which any storm-sash or screen belongs.

Ordinarily houses situated in cold climates are provided with extra sashor storm-windows, which are put on over the usual windows in the fall ofthe year and removed in the spring. Such houses are also provided withscreens for the windows. These screens are usually put in place in thespring and removed in the fall. Unless the screens and the storm-sashare properly marked considerable difficulty is experienced in selectingthe screens or sash belonging to the particular windows. Moreover, ifordinary numbering devices are applied these must be removed when thehouse is repainted or the numbers will be obliterated by the paint.

It is the object of my invention to'remove all of these objections andprovide a numbering device that will not become covered up when thehouse is painted.

The invention consists generally in the constructions and combinationshereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a front elevation of a numbering device embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing a plate provided with asingle figure. Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing a plate provided withtwo figures.

In the drawings, 2 represents a suitable plate, preferably formed ofthin sheet metal.

3 represents a raised portion of the plate, in the surface of which is afigure that is cut through the plate.

I prefer to provide a plate 2, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, having twoseries of raised portions and two series of figures out therein, thefigures running from 1 to O, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Inusing the device one of these plates will be tacked upon thewindow-casing at the side of the window, one upon the storm-sash, wherestormsash are used, and one upon the screen. Each plate will have one ormore of its raised portions pounded down or even with the surface of theplate, and the figures upon the raised portions thus pounded down willindicate the number of the particular window to which the device isapplied. For instance, suppose that the raised portion bearing thefigures 2 in the tens-column and 5 in the units-column are pounded downso as to be level with the surface of the plate. Then suppose that thisplate be tacked onto a window-frame. The device will then indicate thatthe number of the window-frame is and that a stormsash or screensimilarly marked is to be applied tothis window-frame. A similar plateis placed upon the storm-sash and a similar plate upon thewindow-screen. The raised portions carrying the figures 2 and 5 aredepressed, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, either before orafter the plate is attached, and by this means the window-frame, thestorm-sash, and screen will all be similarly marked for thesame window,and if all of the window-frames, storm-sash, and screens belonging tothe house are numbered in this manner then it will be a very easy matterto determine at a glance where any sash or screen belongs. In this waywith a single plate windows or doors may be numbered from one toninety-nine, as desired, and if it were found necessary a third columnof figures could be provided representing the hundreds-column, and theplates could then be used to designate windows or doors from one to ninehundred and ninety-nine.

As the figures are cut through the plate and as these figures arelocated in the raised portions of the plates, it is impossible toobliterate the figures in painting the house or in painting the screensor sash. The plate may be painted over any number of times, and anypaint that comes. on the figures Wlll pass through them and be held inthe space behind the raised portion of the plate. The figures which aredepressed and practically obliterated will indicate the number of thescreen or sash upon which the plate is applied, and it will beimpossible to make any mistake as to the number of this screen or sash,owing to the fact that the numbers, which are not depressed, cannot beobliterated. It is, of course, practicable to depress all of the figuresexcept one in each row, and in that instance the figures not obliteratedwill indicate the number of the screen or sash. I have found it easier,however, to depress the figures indicating the number of the screen orsash, and when this is done it is just as easy to determine the numberof the screen or sash by noting what figures have been depressed orobliterated.

Instead of using a single plate having a number of figures thereon I mayuse plates having one or more figures, as shown in Figs. 4

and 5 of the drawings. In this instance duplicate plates will be usedand the raised portions will not be depressed. The raised portions maybe circular in outline, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4, or may be oblong,as indicated in Fig. 5, or may be of any other shape. These raisedportions may be convex, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or they may be ofother suitable form.

I. claim as my invention 1. A numbering device, comprising a plateadapted to be secured to a window sash or door and having a portion ofits surface raised above the plane of the remaining portion, andprovided with a character cut or formed therein and communicating withthe space in the rear of said raised portion to allow paint and otherforeign matter to pass through and prevent the concealment orobliteration of said character.

2. A numbering device, comprising a plate having a series of raisedareas thereon formed by pressing up portions of the plate above theplane of the remaining portion, each raised area bearing a characterformed in the plate and extending therethrough and communicating withthe space in the rear of said area, and said raised area being'ofcomparatively thin material and adapted to be crushed or pressed downupon the plate, substantially as described.

3. A numbering device,'comprising a plate adapted to be secured to awindow-sash or door and having rows of raised areas thereon above theplane of the remaining portion of the plate, said areas having rows ofnumbers running from one to zero cut through the plate and communicatingwith the space in the rear of said raised areas, and said areas beingadapted to be crushed or pressed with the numbers therein down upon saidplate, for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of June,1904.

EDl VARD A. CROSBY.

In presence of- G. G. HANSON, A. (1. PAUL.

